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marcicatBest part of the new vending machine: Since it's space-age enough to require a demo, the vending machine company enticed people to come to the demo by offering free snacks. Yum!
Worst part of the new vending machine: There's no way to tell how much something costs without going through the whole 'I'm about to buy this' process. (Swipe your card, take out the food, and scan it.) Technically you can cancel it at that point, but you still have to go through all of that in full view of whoever's hanging out in the break room; it's like an introvert's nightmare.
Since I am never one to pass up free snacks, I attended the demo, and asked what I felt was a reasonable question. "Is there a way to tell how much things cost *without* pretending to buy it?"
Short answer: no. Long answer: "But don't worry, almost everything is less than $7."
WELL I CERTAINLY HOPE SO. (And of course, the 'almost' means that *something* in there is actually MORE than $7, which is the true mystery.) It's one of the fancy machines with meals as well as snacks, which is cool, but it's mostly yogurt cup-level stuff, not SEVEN DOLLAR stuff.
(Not gonna lie, I absolutely thought of that "what could it cost" meme. Like perhaps the person doing the demonstration had NO IDEA what things cost, and just looked at the yogurt cup and took a wild guess.)
Worst part of the new vending machine: There's no way to tell how much something costs without going through the whole 'I'm about to buy this' process. (Swipe your card, take out the food, and scan it.) Technically you can cancel it at that point, but you still have to go through all of that in full view of whoever's hanging out in the break room; it's like an introvert's nightmare.
Since I am never one to pass up free snacks, I attended the demo, and asked what I felt was a reasonable question. "Is there a way to tell how much things cost *without* pretending to buy it?"
Short answer: no. Long answer: "But don't worry, almost everything is less than $7."
WELL I CERTAINLY HOPE SO. (And of course, the 'almost' means that *something* in there is actually MORE than $7, which is the true mystery.) It's one of the fancy machines with meals as well as snacks, which is cool, but it's mostly yogurt cup-level stuff, not SEVEN DOLLAR stuff.
(Not gonna lie, I absolutely thought of that "what could it cost" meme. Like perhaps the person doing the demonstration had NO IDEA what things cost, and just looked at the yogurt cup and took a wild guess.)
